Every country guards their independence and the right to
live according to what they believe is the best way for its citizens zealously.
They built a strong military force to keep foreigners out of their country so
that their people can enjoy what they have built and what is in the country.
And every citizen has a duty to fight and die for the country, to defend the
country and its people and its way of life.
We have gone down this hazy road of filling our country with
foreigners. Other countries also have done so for different reasons and under
different circumstances and conditions. The European powers went on a path of
conquest and colonisation, to own countries and people. After WW2, many of the
colonised countries were returned to the natives who declared independence from
their colonial masters, to decide the fate of their countries and peoples.
In some countries like Australia
and New Zealand,
and some islands where the natives are insignificant in numbers, the
colonialists seized the countries for good and imposed their own laws on
immigrations. Australia
and New Zealand
have been very careful in letting the right type of people they want into their
countries and at a number they are comfortable with. They ensure that they are
the owners and the dominant people in the new countries they seized from the
natives. Countries like Australia
and New Zealand
would never allow immigrants to swarm their countries and turn themselves into
a minority.
The colonialists conquered countries by forced and ruled the
natives with the gun. They may be small in numbers, but they controlled the population
as their subjects and with lesser rights than them. The end of WW2 found that
colonialism was no longer acceptable as a way to conquer and rule over the
natives of the land. But in countries like Australia
and New Zealand,
and the USA,
their overwhelming majority allowed them to continue to be the masters of the
land and with the natives existing as a subgroup in the country.
We gained independence and we called ourselves the people of
a country called Singapore.
We are the majority, the four major races as one people of a nation.
The unrestrained immigration policy in recent years by the
govt has filled the island with so many foreigners, that in absolute numbers,
the Singaporeans are now a minority. The govt thinks it is ok. The people did
not think and did not care if it is ok or nor ok as long as their lives are not
too adversely affected.
It is not too far wrong to say that there are 50% foreigners
here or more, if new citizens are included. This seems ok for the moment. What
if the percentage of foreigners goes higher, 60%, 70% or 80%, will it be ok?
What if the foreigners turned citizens seized political power and become the
new leaders and start to change the rules of citizenship and discriminating
against the original Singaporeans? Not possible?
Take a hypothetical case for a mental exercise to see if it
is acceptable and putting aside the question of possibles. Are Singaporeans
comfortable with the foreigners turning new citizens cum PRs forming more than
70% of the population. This is not counting the transient workers and Employment
Pass holders. What about 80% or
90%? If Singaporeans are not bothered
with the numbers and percentages of foreigners and new citizens here, and if
the govt also thinks it is a good thing, a right thing, and this state of
affair really happens and Singaporeans become like the insignificant natives of
Australia, New
Zealand and USA,
is it ok? Would it be too late to rewind the clock?
At what point, at what percentage of the population becoming
foreign/new citizens would it be considered that the country has been taken
over by foreigners, invaded?
Or does it need to reach a stage when the new citizens/PRs
start to discriminate against the original Singaporeans and with the latter
unable to resist anymore, would it then be called an invasion and the lost of
the country to foreigners?
As it is today, some foreigners have already started to practise
discrimination against the Singaporeans and with the Singaporeans unable to do
anything about it, hapless, and the govt not sure what it is thinking and doing
about it. Are we already invaded and on the verge of losing our country to
foreigners? There is no need to invade a country by military forces or to raise
a different flag to take over a country, especially if the people are willing
to give it away freely, or did not know what is happening.
What is the definition of an invasion or a country taken
over by foreigners? Or is it something that is not important, no need to think
about, will not happen or let it happen, a natural trend of globalisation. Some tweets are crowing about globalisation,
states being irrelevant, and borderless. While they are blowing their
loudspeakers, they are raising barriers against free immigration. But silly
countries believes this propaganda and went head in, opening up their countries
to foreigners and allowing foreigners to take over their industries and countries
in blissful ignorance of what lies ahead. Leave it to market forces?
Globalisation is the in thing. Borderless is the way to go. We are just a hotel
and so be it?
What do you think? Have we lost our
country or on the way to losing it?